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USA: Armed men robbed poker players

During the night between Sunday and Monday, three men broke into a house in North Carolina (USA) where a poker game with around 30 people was held. The three robbers were all armed, 2 of them had handguns and one had a rifle. The man with the rifle used his rifle butt to knock down 2 of the poker players before firing a shot into the wall and demanding the other poker players to lay down on the floor.

The robbers then escaped with an unknown amount of money from the house, and still the police haven't been able to catch anyone of them. However, the police are going to continue the search for the three men until they get some results according to Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina.

surely someone from inside must be involved, they must be knowing that there is no security and a lot of money would be there due to the poker game. can't believe ppl were playing high stakes game at someone's house without adequate security

Sounds like an inside job, maybe the host or one of the players themselves. In the long run when they catch who ever did this, it would be interesting to see who these robbers were linked to. I didn't see it, but did the guy holding the game get in trouble for illegal gambling. Sometimes the local authorities don't like that kind of thing for some reason.

Looks like they have been watching too many movies.So theres a snich in the group, re play the CCTV footage you used to see villians cards, now look for the guy who was not supprised when the masked men broke in, he is in on it too.Now find the SOAB and turn him in to a human bag of jelly.

well,,,they had to know the game was on,,,and have an idea of how much cash was involved...id look to an inside type job,,mabey a big loser from a few weeks ago..or is the game just sooo well known that it could have been anyboody,,,??

I don't know how it is there but in my country (portugal) we can only play games with money in casinos so if we get robbed I don't think the cops will do anything. or maybe they try to find the robbers and in the meentime they give us a fine for playing with money

It must have been people who knew the game was going to have place in that house. Usualy, home made tourneys are only told to those who can participate, so the first suspects should be those who were invited but coudnt go that night, and those who knew their friends were going to play but didnt invited him... this second is most probably the author of this crime. Solved!p.s. Sorry, just ended watching a CSI episode